Comments on: Ticker Taped: The 9/11 News Crawlhttp://observer.com/2011/09/ticker-taped-the-911-news-crawl/
News, Politics, Culture, Art, Style, Real Estate, Movie Reviews, TV recapsFri, 09 Dec 2016 14:30:26 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Eyeondchttp://observer.com/2011/09/ticker-taped-the-911-news-crawl/#comment-5860
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:36:00 +0000http://www.observer.com/?p=181739#comment-5860The sad fact is that they are now revenue producers at the local station level, ad logos are sold on the ticker, so they are not going away anytime soon. There has been no effective viewer pushback, no research that shows viewer annoyance, so the ticker will continue. There does appear to be a generational aspect to this, older viewers find them distracting, younger ones don’t care. The only problem is that there are hardly any younger viewers for TV news, so the complaints reflect the older demographics.
]]>By: Eyeondchttp://observer.com/2011/09/ticker-taped-the-911-news-crawl/#comment-5861
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:36:00 +0000http://www.observer.com/?p=181739#comment-5861The sad fact is that they are now revenue producers at the local station level, ad logos are sold on the ticker, so they are not going away anytime soon. There has been no effective viewer pushback, no research that shows viewer annoyance, so the ticker will continue. There does appear to be a generational aspect to this, older viewers find them distracting, younger ones don’t care. The only problem is that there are hardly any younger viewers for TV news, so the complaints reflect the older demographics.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://observer.com/2011/09/ticker-taped-the-911-news-crawl/#comment-5859
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:24:00 +0000http://www.observer.com/?p=181739#comment-5859I disagree, I think the crawl has been a valuable asset to the news channels. When the news show is droning on the topic of the moment the crawl gives you a heads up on what else is happening, otherwise those moments of only listening to trash talk are wasted.
]]>By: Mario500http://observer.com/2011/09/ticker-taped-the-911-news-crawl/#comment-5858
Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:58:00 +0000http://www.observer.com/?p=181739#comment-5858The tickers currently in use by CNN and Headline News are the least distracting of the tickers I’ve seen during TV news programming and it would be much better if each story described had more details such as both the first names and last names of people. I rarely watch programming from MSNBC and the FOX News Channel, but whenever I do the scrolling tickers are very distracting, especially in a 16:9 picture displayed on a 4:3 TV screen (I was referring to the pictures from the FOX News Channel near the end of my sentence).

I wish the writer of the article had added the year 2001 to the date of the attacks and the title should have not used the common numeral form used in reference to the day of the attacks. The eleventh day of September is an ordinary calendar date and it is no different from other calendar dates. I don’t refer to Independence Day in the United States as “7/4”, Christmas Day as “12/25”, or people’s birthdays in such forms. They sound silly.

Something good and bad happens under every calendar date. Everyday should be a new day and every other eleventh day of September should not be under the shadow of the eleventh day of September of 2001.

]]>By: Magisterhttp://observer.com/2011/09/ticker-taped-the-911-news-crawl/#comment-5857
Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:43:00 +0000http://www.observer.com/?p=181739#comment-5857A lot of the time, I prefer the news on the crawl to whatever pablum is coming out of the anchor’s mouth. After all, I turn to a news channel for real news and not pumped-up non-stories, manufactured controversies or updates on a reality star’s wedding.

The crawls aren’t always “real news” or deep, but reading it gives me something to do while the program does an uninteresting, unnecessary or mind-numbing segment.